The Global Faculty expand NYU Law's faculty by inviting leading law professors from around the world who teach regularly at NYU while retaining their affiliation with their home institutions. They specialize in diverse fields of law, not just international law, and are renowned scholars in their countries and areas of interest. Their courses provide an extraordinary opportunity for NYU students to learn from and interact with these eminent scholars and to gain a new perspective on important legal issues. Along with our Global Fellows and Hauser Global Scholars, the Global Faculty represent the heart of the Hauser Global Law School Program and a key element in the intellectual life of the Law School.
NYU School of Law's relationship with many global faculty is continuing and intimate over several years, rather than single one-semester or one-year arrangements. The global faculty are thereby integrated fully into the fabric of the Law School, both its academic programs and the collateral activities that largely define the institution.
Academic Year 2024-2025
Fall Semester
Prabha Kotiswaran
India, United Kingdom, United States
pk3070@nyu.edu
Prabha Kotiswaran is Professor of Law and Social Justice at King’s College London. Her main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist legal studies, and sociology of law. Prabha has authored Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India (Princeton 2011) (winner of the SLSA-Hart Book Prize for Early Career Academics). She has written on economic sociology of law and edited in that context a book on trafficking (Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery Cambridge, 2017). She co-authored Governance Feminism: An Introduction (University of Minnesota Press 2018) and co-edited Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field (University of Minnesota Press 2019), both with Janet Halley, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir). She has edited the Routledge Handbook of Law and Society (with Mariana Valverde, Eve-Darian Smith and Kamari Clarke). She is currently PI of an EU-supported grant, the Laws of Social Reproduction, a cross-sectoral study of five sectors of reproductive labor including unpaid care and domestic work.
Courses:
Introduction to Law and Society Seminar
Law, Gender and Political Economy Seminar
Kristen Rundle
Australia
kristen.rundle@nyu.edu
Kristen Rundle is Professor of legal theory and administrative law at the University of Melbourne. She was the Co-Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne Law School from 2017-2020, and previously held appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, as well as adjunct, visiting and honorary appointments at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, the University of Ottawa, and Erasmus University. Professor Rundle’s first book, Forms Liberate: Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller (Hart Publishing, 2012) was awarded the University of Melbourne Woodward Medal in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2017), and second prize, UK Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (2012). She was the first woman to be asked to deliver the prestigious Kobe Memorial Lecture in Legal and Political Philosophy, which she presented in Japan in 2018. Most recently she is the author of Revisiting the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press Elements in Philosophy of Law, 2022), and co-author of the fourth edition of Principles of Administrative Law (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Courses:
Problems in Jurisprudence
The Executive Branch in Theory and Practice Seminar
Spring Semester
Susy Frankel
New Zealand
srf330@nyu.edu
Susy Frankel, FRSNZ, Professor of Law, holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and International Trade and is Founding Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, at Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka. Professor Frankel was President the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) from 2015-2017. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of World Intellectual Property, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and the Intellectual Property Quarterly. She teaches copyright, trademarks, patents, international intellectual property and international trade law. Her scholarship focuses on international intellectual property and its nexus with international trade, particularly treaty interpretation and the protection of indigenous peoples’ knowledge and innovation. From 2008-2019 she was Chair of New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal. In 2018 Susy was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and in 2019 was appointed a member of the Waitangi Tribunal, which hears claim brought to address breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Courses:
Intellectual Property & Globalization Seminar
International Intellectual Property Law
Hualing Fu
Jerome A. Cohen Visiting Professor of Law
China
hf2616@nyu.edu
Fu Hualing is the Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities and the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He holds an LLB from Southwestern University of Politics and Law in China, an MA from the University of Toronto, and a doctoral degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. His research focuses on rule of law reform, constitutional development, and human rights, with a particular emphasis on China. He is a China Law Editor of the Hong Kong Law Journal, an Editorial Board member of The China Quarterly, and Co-editor of the Routledge Rule of Law in China and Comparative Perspectives Series. His most recent publication is Regime Type and Beyond: Police Transformation in Asia, co-edited with Dr. Weitseng Chen, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.
Course:
Law and Society in China Seminar
Human Rights in China
Martti Koskenniemi
Finland
mak11@nyu.edu
Martti Koskenniemi is Professor Emeritus of International law at the University of Helsinki. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has worked as diplomat with the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and was a member of the International Law Commission (UN) in 2002-2006. He has held several visiting professorships across the world. He has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Uppsala, McGill, Frankfurt, Tartu, Brussels (VUB) and the European University Institute (EUI, Florence). His main publications include From Apology to Utopia; The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989/2005), The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001) and To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power 1300-1870 (2021). His most recent publication is a joint work with Professor David Kennedy (Harvard), Of Law and the World. Critical Conversations on Power, History and Political Economy (2023).
Course:
Legal Imagination and International History: Sovereignty and Property
René Matteotti
Switzerland
rene.matteotti@nyu.edu
René Matteotti, Professor of Law, holds the Chair in Swiss, European, and International Tax Law at the University of Zurich. He gained his MA in History (summa cum laude) from the University of Basel, his MLaw and PhD (summa cum laude) from the University of Bern, and an LLM in Tax (with honors) from Northwestern University. He has been admitted to the bar of the Canton of Zurich. For his academic achievements René has been received various awards, including the Faculty of Law and Economics prize from the University of Bern for the best Master of Law of the class of 1997 and the Professor Walther Hug Prize for his doctoral thesis in 2003. In 2007, he completed his habilitation, i.e. his professorial thesis, with a monography on the relevance of Substance-over-Form in Swiss and US tax law, supported by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for research at Northwestern University.
René has actively contributed to tax policy through his involvement in various expert groups. He has served on the Steering Committee of the Federal Tax Administration for the Corporate Tax Reform and the working group of the Federal Tax Administration on the implementation of the GloBE Minimum Tax in Switzerland. His professional affiliations include membership in the scientific committee of the European Association of Tax Law Professors and the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association. In 2023, René was the General Reporter at the IFA 2023 Congress on the topic “Sharing and shifting of corporate losses – The new profit shifting?”. The comparative study, synthesizing 39 national reports, was published in the Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International.
In addition to his academic achievements, René has extensive experience as a practicing tax lawyer, mediator, and expert witness. He collaborates with private sector businesses, federal and cantonal authorities, and foreign tax administrations and courts. His areas of expertise encompass tax controversy, dispute resolution and tax arbitration in international tax matters, including transfer pricing and the GloBE minimum taxation.
Courses:
International Tax Policy Seminar
Tax Treaties
Yuko Nishitani
Japan
yn2251@nyu.edu
Yuko Nishitani is Professor of International Private and Business Law at Kyoto University in Japan and Vice-President of the Hague Academy of International Law. She holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg and was awarded the Philippe Franz von Siebold Prize in 2020. She has held visiting appointments at NYU and Duke University, among others, and represented the Japanese government at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Nishitani is fluent in Japanese, English, German, and French. Her areas of interest include private international law (or conflict of laws), comparative law, and family law, with a special focus on global legal pluralism, extraterritoriality, corporate due diligence, SDGs, cultural identity, and colonialism. She authored Mancini und die Parteiautonomie im Internationalen Privatrecht (2000) and Identité culturelle en droit international privé de la famille (Recueil des cours, Vol. 401 (2019)), co-authored Japanese Private International Law (2021), and edited Treatment of Foreign Law: Dynamics towards Convergence? (2017).
Courses:
Transnational Private Law and Global Challenges Seminar
Conflict of Laws in Global Perspectives